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dc.contributor.authorShields, Linda
dc.contributor.authorWatson, R.
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-30T13:33:36Z
dc.date.available2017-01-30T13:33:36Z
dc.date.created2008-11-19T18:02:02Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationShields, Linda and Watson, Roger. 2008. Where have all the nurses gone?. Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing 26 (1): pp. 95-101.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/32866
dc.description.abstract

The aim of this article is to highlight a crisis that has developed in UK nursing. The nursing workforce worldwide is diminishing and the UK nursing workforce is no exception. While steps are being taken in the UK to alleviate the nursing shortage by funding more places in university nursing departments, this initiative is no longer viable due to the financial crisis in the NHS, which funds nursing education. The significant influx of international nurses to the UK is likely to be a short-term solution to a long-term problem as this incipient form of neo-colonialism is seen to deplete developing countries of their nurses, and international nursing bodies condemn it.The outcome of the crisis may well lead to the disappearance of nurses from the UK NHS workforce as they are replaced by the cheaper alternative of health care assistant and technicians. This can only be to the detriment of patients.

dc.publisherAustralian Nursing Federation
dc.relation.urihttp://www.ajan.com.au/ajan_26.1.html
dc.subjectpolicy
dc.subjectUK
dc.subjectNHS
dc.titleWhere have all the nurses gone?
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume26
dcterms.source.number1
dcterms.source.startPage95
dcterms.source.endPage101
dcterms.source.issn0813-0531
dcterms.source.titleAustralian Journal of Advanced Nursing
curtin.accessStatusOpen access
curtin.facultySchool of Nursing and Midwifery
curtin.facultyMedical and Health Sciences


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